Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
writes:

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote at 23:42 this Tuesday (GMT):

[...]

The epoch is a specified moment in time.  That moment can be
expressed as midnight UTC Jan 1 1970, as 4PM PST Dec 31 1969,
or (time_t)0.  GMT/UTC is just a convenient way to specify it.

>
You could also be GoLang and use MST January 2 2006 at 3:04:05 PM.
(1/2 03:04:05 PM 2006 GMT-7)

That's not an epoch.  It's a reference time used in documentation,
chosen because all the fields have unique values.  It means that results
of converting a time to the dozen or so supported layouts can be easily
read.

[...]

Datetime is a nightmare, this is why we use a simple seconds-since-X
system.

Indeed.  That makes it a slightly less unpleasant nightmare.

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